Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-06-01
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path for the oppressed
Ttsn, from TIE fatal fields. their spirits
snoss tie chords Of gratitude that fame
might twine lie isurels round their names.
Reverenes for the patriotic dead has
sver been 9 characteristic Of the American
people.
To-day, love for 3 great cause il lighting
anew the halls Of memory that again may
be read the records thereon engraved Of
the brave men Who, through four years OF
trial such a. few countries have survived.
Of unqualified financial pressure, AID OF
ir~csssant warfare with . fee OF their -
blood and birth, led our nation on 10 final
victory, and placed the United States
among the great powers OF the world;
more than ever before the buluark OF
right. the hope Of struggling Democratic
In the Old World. and the exemplar OF
progress.
Imbued with gratitude for the pious
inheritance which your vslor bequeathed
us, IL il fitting that We halt In this stately
temple Of liberty which has been swelling
in proportions for more han . century,
and, gathering around her affairs. listen TO
| the teSchiugs OF the noble manhood. the
| seif-sscrifcing spirit, the pure patriotism
which we're called forth BY the struggle,
snd learn from the voices Of the dead;
voices which appeal to Us With the tradi-
| tons Of the psst. the fame of ancestors,
| the respect Of nations. the glory OF the
present, almost the hope OF the future;
voices which come with every whispering
| breeze from 9 million graves. 10 tell the
| Americans they forewent the world for
| conviction, for principle, for what to
| them Was truth. Dead upon that altar OF
conviction, We honor the soldier.
The sacrifice was noble whether he gave
his life to wipe ont that exotic Of crimes,
| human slavery, or 10 pull down the pillars
| of q union which he believed sccursed !"
| and Q covenant with hell" To die WAS
no sacrifice, that is the condition OF life;
| but the adjustment Of self TO q theory OF
| governments which demands the life OF the
| believer. commands all influence, all re-
| spect, all honor.
With . spirit of forgiveness as broad as
truth and a. deep % humanity, let rs rise
| above the hate OF sectional strife and do
| honor alike 10 the saviors OF the Union
and to the memory OF those brave men
whose principles are inferred with their
bones.
when the bright guardians of q great
truth die
The grateful tear in sadness will start,
And the keen anguish Of Q reddening eye
Disclose the deep sfiiotion of the heart"
l have no sympathy with those false
prophets Of peace who would dam up the
fountains Of human compassion, and stifs
. pious sense of dependence and respect
for the human forces that did not shrink
from s~econding the soul. Their cause was
the struggle Of principle, 8 cause worth
dying for; and . cause worth dying for II
worth remembering.
Out of the issues of its great victory the
Constitution crept back into its former
channels. not q free gift TO posterity, bu'
bound with conditions and covenants o.
trust.
The battle of force had been fought
with victory TO the strong; but the con
test Of thought and intellect was left fol
us and the generations that are to come.
The state men, who have gone, builded
well for their day, but the future will de
msnd even wiser architects and thoughts
better disciplined for graphing with thu
subtlest questions.
There may be room for questioning tbs
propriety of leaving the doctrines of ths
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their former entirety. During the foul
years of our contest. We had risen to
foremost position among the nations o
the earth, and it remains for the presen
century to show whether q form OF gov
eminent adapted to the necessities Of
twentieth-rate nation will possess tn
elasticity necessary for il to conform II
the vicissitudes OF the new order of 30
ciety; an order which is but one phase o
the evolution of a great nation from tn
germs Of liberty and equal right. Life i
growth. and growth is change. "The oil
order changeth, yielding place to new
and God fulills himself in many ways
lest one good custom should corrupt thu
world" Should the new be counted
stranger Must We restrict the growing
nation to the limitations Of it's childhood
Humanity has outgrown every constitu
ton and changed the manner of consider
alton of fundamental questions in every
Democracy. The growth Of business. Sd,
reaching out of the mind from year Il
year in q thousand unanticipated direc
tions, and the requirements legitimately
rising from such expansion, point out the
binding places in every law which is no
coextensive in principle with the interesI
and ambition of its subjects. The Law
that would survive must then keep pace
with the march Of intellect. Long before
the actual fault in q lawo or constitution
can be fixed upon it's friction can be felt
The rasp that il gives to energy. the
check that it places upon . spirit Of law.
full ambition that will not be restrained
in q generous effort to equalize it's condi.
ton, are felt in the great internal move
ments and connections of q nation which,
ever and anon. tug at the pillars OF q
government. The laws md constitution
of a united people are the condensed wis.
| dom of its leaders. They may. perchance.
establish principles which will stretch so
far In advance Of the wants Of the present,
which will SO anticipate the growth Of the
thought and intellect of q people and its
accompanying demands that the tenscity
of the laws they enact may never be put to
the test.
But a kind Providence. looking ever TO
the happiness of the existing generations
OF men. has never empowered men COM
pletely to anticipate the sensibilities aud
the human wants Of the industries Of sue
ceediog generations.
The greatest thought Of the greatest
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